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November 8, 2017 07:01 pm GMT

An imminent Bitcoin fork was just postponed indefinitely

It ain't easy being Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency has undergone several forks in the course of the last year while simultaneously skyrocketing in value and was on course for potentially another fork set to take place in mid-November. It's that last part which has run into a pretty serious speed bump. 

Known as Segwit2x, the plan was to both double the Bitcoin block size to 2MB and to move some transaction data off the blockchain. To many in the Bitcoin community, the move was controversial. So controversial, in fact, that the backers of the plan announced in a November 8 email they would be backing down.  Read more...

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